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Lyft received from the Chinese taxi service DiDi $ 100 million to fight Uber

Lyft and the Chinese taxi service DiDi Chuxing talked about strategic partnership: service users will be able to book trips in both applications. In China, Lyft users will be able to hire DiDI cars and vice versa.



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Lyft announced a partnership with DiDi, saying that DiDi had invested one hundred million dollars in the company earlier this year. Lyft CEO John Zimmer called this deal "our first step towards global reach." "This is just the beginning of our broad partnership that will include financial, technological and product components."



Taxi companies around the world do not compete with each other, but with the largest player - Uber. Only in China, this startup has collected 1.2 billion dollars - more than Lyft in the history of its existence. To combat it, Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache came together to become DiDi Chuxing. Some investors who have invested in DiDi have invested in the Indian taxi service Ola.

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In May of this year, the Lyft service attracted one hundred and fifty million dollars in the framework of the next round of financing, DiDi took part in it. Combining with Lyft, DiDi service and its investors continue the trend, in which it is important to invest money in anything other than Uber .

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/294590/



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